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immédiatement

immediately

adverb ee-meh-dyat-MAHN Less Common

Usage Note

Immédiatement is the adverb from immédiat ('immediate'). In spoken French it is often replaced by the shorter tout de suite ('right away'), but immédiatement carries more formal or emphatic weight. It is always placed after the verb it modifies.

Examples

"Venez immédiatement, c'est urgent."

Natural Translation

Come immediately, it's urgent.

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